Preserve History of Configuration Changes in CCC using CCL

There might be instances when the administrator wants to roll back to a previous configuration due to some existing erroneous configurations or functional difficulties.CCC facilitates Policy Version Control to maintain revision history of configuration changes of managed appliances.

Revisions are the configuration changes synchronized by CCC and stored in CCC repository.This feature helps administrator to achieve this objective without putting manual efforts. CCL also includesSystem Snapshot which is a backup of entire configuration where OS is considered as the base version.

Once the CCL is enables, it allows the administrator to:

·View change list of affected configuration settings

·View details of configuration changes

·Compare different versions of configurations

·Take configuration snapshot

·Restore system configuration snapshot

·Roll-back to previous configuration

Note:

·There can be maximum three snapshots for an appliance.

·Configuration roll back is possible up to the last snapshot only.

·If an appliance is no longer managed by CCC, the revision history for the appliance will remain in CCC until not purged manually.

Scenario

Configure and manage Change Control in CCC.

Configuration

You must be logged on to the Web Admin Console as an administrator with Read-Write permission for relevant feature(s).

Step 1: Enable CCL

CCL (Change Control List) for CCC appliances can be enabled in the following three ways:

Configuration changes in CCC are based on the Revisions of the Policy versions. Revisions are the number of changes made to an entity where an entity can be an Object, Policy, Rule etc.

To view and manage configuration revisions of managed appliances, go to Management Console > Appliance Management > Change Control. Select the appliance from the list of appliances to view the revisions.

Click to view details of the revision.

Revision History

To view the revision history, click View Revision.

To view the details of the revision in XML format, click against the revision.

To view the difference with previous version, click .

Step 3: Manage System Snapshots

System Snapshot is a backup of entire configuration where OS is the base version.

System Snapshots are automatically generated in following cases:

·If the managed appliance is in unsynchronized state and any configuration change is pending, CCC tries to synchronize the appliance and generates System Snapshot

·After a factory reset of managed appliance

·After a firmware upgrade on managed appliance

·If CCL is enabled by default, System Snapshot will be taken each month automatically.

The administrator can revert the configuration changes using CCC’s Change Control functionality.To revert the configuration changes done in the revision, go to Management Console > Appliance Management > Change Control and clickagainst the revision.

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